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I’ve been holding off on updating CyberWyre until after the long weekend. With Canada Day, and Independence Day, I’m sure my traffic will fall to next to nothing. Take it easy, and I’ll be back to regular posting after Monday.
I’m off to Kingston for the weekend now! Gonna try to beat the long weekend traffic…
It’s fathers day, and traffic levels to my sites have dipped significantly. I’ve observed this in the past on other national holidays, and on weekends in North American summer months.
Looking at CyberWyre logs: The five-day Monday-Friday average traffic levels of the week leading up to Father’s Day 2006 fell over 45% on the weekend. On other weekends in the month traffic levels only dipped 30% from their Monday-Friday average. Looking at January 2007, it can be seen that traffic levels only dipped an average of 9% on the weekend from their workday average.
Although traffic certainly is affected by factors other than public holidays and weather, from these results, I can clearly see that CyberWyre does experience significant traffic dips on the weekends in the Summer months, and even more so on national holidays.
Happy Father’s Day!
Time to go BBQ….
I recently had the chance to check out WordZe, a new keyword research tool aimed at helping those in the affiliate marketing business. WordZe offers many interesting and useful tools to analyze keyword search trends, to find competitive sites given certain keywords, and many others.
I have been thinking of developing a few websites related to flowers to take advantage of search traffic for events such as Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, etc and used the tools WordZe had to offer to refine my ideas. In particular, I was interested to know the search volume for the word “color”, pertaining to flower, or more in particularly rose colors. Using WordZe’s keyword trends search feature, I was able to obtain some interesting results:
On June 8, 2006, my site was listed on the popular blog BoingBoing, and I received 31,000 unique visitors in one day, giving me an Alexa rank for that day of 1,000, better than Coke or Playboy! Subsequent days also had very high traffic levels, brining between 4000-7000 uniques per day. BoingBoing found the link to my site because on June 7 my Highest Paying AdSense Keywords page was Dugg.
What was your best source of traffic ever? How did you find it, or how did they find you, how much traffic did you receive initially, and how long did it last?
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